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Dancing in the Streets
The classic Glasgow Memoir with a new introduction by Tom Morton This is Clifford Hanley's vibrant, unsentimental and hilarious account of growing up in the 1920s and '30s, and his later working life as a radio broadcaster and journalist. His razor-sharp observations and anecdotes cover many topics, from family life, art and showbiz to politics, sex, TB and what it was like to be a conscientious objector during the Second World War. But even the most bittersweet stories are leavened with humour, and the irrepressible Glasgow spirit always shines through. 'Hanley writes with consistent relish for his native city . . . captures Glasgow and its people nonchalantly and unfussily' – Ian Jack, The Guardian 'Like a portal into a vanished Glasgow, but one where the city, its people – their foibles, hopes, humour and warmth – are instantly familiar' – Norry Wilson, Lost Glasgow
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The Red-haired Bitch
"What happens when amateur but talented people combine to produce a musical comedy for the professional theater provides a backslapping backdrop for The Red-Haired Bitch, the title of their opus based on Mary, Queen of Scots. Davy Minto is a patriotic Scot with money enough to finance the effort for the sake of his childless wife who had once been in reportory even though she's pudgy and happy at home. Their director is a London washout, their words are via a lecherous lyricist, the music via a marvelous school teacher, and the book via a professional crank. Naturally a star is imported from a TV series while the rest of the cast is collected from all over Glasgow, and the bohemianism associated with backstage life infects each one to some degree--none fatally, all funnily. Boffo, with a Scots burr."--Kirkus.
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The Moving Target
The first book in Ross Macdonald's acclaimed Lew Archer series introduces the detective who redefined the role of the American private eye and gave the crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity only hinted at before. Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping. As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, and family hatred into an explosively readable crime novel.
The Colleen Bawn
Reproduction of the original: The Colleen Bawn by Dion Boucicault
Road Trip
This collection of poetry follows my life as I journey from the middle 1950s to the present. The underlying motif is transformation--in the world and me, first as a child on family road trips through the South, so long ago that they typically linger as childish recollection with a touch of magic, a testament to resilience and memory. Later poems are about me as a young adult who traveled through the turbulent 60s and 70s. Now as a millennial elder I can reflect on how each moment, each breath was an act of history-making, unbeknownst to me at the time, while I was a historical agent, whether as activist, artist, parent, lover, teacher, or simply an observer. Now that I near the end of the journey I can reflect on how change and agency shaped society and my experience and how I changed the world because of it.
Opening Up Education
Online version of MIT Press book has brief overview of book's content and provides links to open access PDF version of ebook, as well as an iPaper version and a link to the MIT Press store for buying the print version. In this collection of essays the authors who are leaders in open education, explore the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education. The authors argue that we must develop not only the technical capability but also the intellectual capacity for transforming tacit pedagogical knowledge into commonly usable and visible knowledge by providing incentives for faculty to use (and contribute to) open education goods, and by looking beyond institutional boundaries to connect a variety of settings and open source entrepreneurs.
